Canadian Heritage Committee on July 27th, 2022

[Michael Coteau, Liberal, Don Valley East, ON]

What would be the total number of cases that were settled from what time period to now from both funds?

[Brian Cairo]

From 1989 to 2021, nine cases were settled from the equity fund, and from 1996—because it only came into existence in 1996—to 2022, there were 12 cases from insurance.

[Michael Coteau, Liberal, Don Valley East, ON]

There were 21 cases in total.

[Brian Cairo]

That's correct.

[Michael Coteau, Liberal, Don Valley East, ON]

Have there been any other cases that have been settled with any additional fund or any other sums of money besides those two pots of money?

[Brian Cairo]

Not to my knowledge, no.

[Michael Coteau, Liberal, Don Valley East, ON]

Not from the general—

[Brian Cairo]

Are we talking about just sexual misconduct?

[Michael Coteau, Liberal, Don Valley East, ON]

Yes.

[Brian Cairo]

Not to my knowledge.

[The Chair, Liberal, Hedy Fry]

Thank you very much, Michael. That's it.

[Michael Coteau, Liberal, Don Valley East, ON]

Thank you.

[The Chair, Liberal, Hedy Fry]

I would like to move now to one final round.

We have time for one final round, so I shall begin with the Conservatives for five minutes. I have no idea who you're going to bring up. Please let us know.

[John Nater, Conservative, Perth—Wellington, ON]

It's Ms. Vecchio.

[The Chair, Liberal, Hedy Fry]

Go ahead, Karen.

[Karen Vecchio, Conservative, Elgin—Middlesex—London, ON]

Thank you so much.

We'll start off with Mr. Branch.

Mr. Branch, I was asking you about the training, and right after I was asking you about this, about the sexual assault training, somebody published that not all OHL teams.... I'm going to quote, “According to the Ontario Coalition of Rape Crisis Centres, an independent organization that has been tracking the OHL Onside training, some teams stopped after the onset of COVID-19.”

Perhaps, Mr. Branch, you could give me an update on if all of the teams are back into this or what the current status is.

[David Branch]

Certainly.

Madam Chair, COVID caused us to have to pause the training. That was at the request of the Ontario rape crisis coalition. One of the pillars of the program that they want to have is that their representatives meet in person.

[Karen Vecchio, Conservative, Elgin—Middlesex—London, ON]

Absolutely.

[David Branch]

They didn't want to do it virtually, so we had to pause it there. Last year we had more difficulty because, in the province of Ontario, there were ongoing health and safety guidelines around COVID.

[Karen Vecchio, Conservative, Elgin—Middlesex—London, ON]

Mr. Branch, I'm really sorry. I don't have a lot of time, so perhaps—

[David Branch]

Okay, sorry.

[Karen Vecchio, Conservative, Elgin—Middlesex—London, ON]

—you can tell me, if we're looking at today, July 27, 2022, how many of your OHL teams and how many teams would be doing this training each and every month or are currently doing it.

[David Branch]

All our teams will engage with the program once again at the start of our season.

[Karen Vecchio, Conservative, Elgin—Middlesex—London, ON]

So all of them will be engaging.

[David Branch]

Absolutely.